John Donne Quotes

Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.

John Donne

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• Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Good
  • Happy

• Among my books, the ones that sell best are for readers between the ages of 8 and 12. According to a study by the Association of American Publishers, the largest area of industry growth in 2014 was in the children and young adult category.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Children
  • American
  • Best

• I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Want

• I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Human
  • Actor
  • Human being

• Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Technique
  • Stillness
  • Captivating

• When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I want to take it like this? Is it because I want to take a beautiful picture?' It's quite hard to try and undo it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Beautiful

• I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Lucky
  • Admit

• My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can't do it alone.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Alone
  • Play
  • Player

• 'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet there's a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Period
  • Pride
  • Prejudice

• I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Read
  • Surprised

• Our World War II generation met the challenges of their time.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • People
  • Great
  • Friends

• Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Action
  • Name
  • Without

• War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Live
  • True
  • Crime

• I think the reason for my fascination with craft is what it represents, what it means in our culture, what it means in our history and in humanity. It was the idea that you could go to your butcher to get something, you could go to your tailor to get this, and you could go to your cobbler to get that.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • History
  • Culture
  • Humanity

• If I knew how to operate a DVR, you'd find episodes of 'The Tavis Smiley Show,' 'Democracy Now!' and lots of stuff from TV Land. What you can find now on my Hulu account are Korean soap operas, 'Grey's Anatomy' and films from the Criterion collection.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • You
  • Democracy
  • Find

• If you don't know one thing about Kid Rock it's that he's loyal. His band has been together for a long time, he stands by his friends, and the guy still lives in his home state of Michigan.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Time
  • Long
  • Home

• To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.

  

  David Whyte
  • Past
  • Control
  • Present

• Sales conducted on-chain through smart contracts couldn't really be done before Ethereum, which is why they are a newer concept. I think this style will become the most common over time.

  

  Fred Ehrsam
  • Time
  • Done
  • Why

• Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Health
  • Adventure
  • Emerging

• It's a social contract we make. We're willing to give up certain things. We give you the right to tax us. We give you the right to lock us up. We give you the right to put us on surveillance, search our homes, whatever and, in exchange, we get a functioning society that keeps us relatively safe, and that's the tradeoff we make.

  

  Matt Apuzzo
  • Up
  • Society
  • Search

• I knew about 'Haunting Hour' and that it was basically the new 'Goosebumps'. When I got offered the role of Corey, I was really excited because I basically felt like I was going to be in a new generation of 'Goosebumps'. It was a lot of fun, because I just love those scary shows, and I'm such a big fan of the horror genre.

  

  Dylan Minnette
  • Fun
  • Scary

• Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.

  

  John Donne